Cosponsored by Hanyang University as a demonstration of its founding philosophy, "love in deed and truth," this conference focused on literacy and languages from cross-cultural and instructional perspectives. The papers selected for this yearbook and their authors are as follows: (1) "Designing Tasks for Slow Learners in L2" (R.B. Somerville-Ryan); (2) "How Children Cope with the Sentential Mode of Representation in Writing" (Yuji Moro); (3) "Cross-Cultural Comparisons of the Cognitive Processes Used by United States, European, and Asian Students in Constructing Text: Focus on Asia" (Eunice Schmidt and Randall Schmidt); (4) "The Relationships among Alternative Measures of Reading Comprehension in Learning Disabled Students" (Lynn Z. Lang); (5) "Ten Years of Reading Research: Applications for the Classroom Teacher" (Stinson E. Worley and Bruce W. Mossman); (6) "Influencing Change in Language Teaching Strategies through Inservice Education" (Claudia Sullivan); (7) "Role of L1 Literacy in L2 Reading Comprehension" (Safiah Osman); (8) "The Korean Bilingualism in China and U.S.S.R." (Youngsoon Park); and (9) "English as an International Language: Implications and Issues" (Uhn-kyung Choi). (Included are the Bylaws of Literacy and Languages in Asia as well as addresses by Lyun Joon Kim of Hanyang University and Sung-Ok Cho of Unesco.) (HOD)